Barry Jones, Kell Black - Please call stella (2008)

In this current work, “please call stella, ” we mine the rich speech accent archives compiled over the last 10 years by steven h. Weinberger, a linguist at george mason university. over the past decade dr. Weinberger and his teams of researchers have recorded thousands of native and non-native english speakers reading a short paragraph that contains all of the sounds in the english language. the elicitation paragraph begins with the words “please call stella.” what follows is an enigmatic narrative that contains references to food, toys, a relative named bob, a date and a location. The scene is set for a story that never progresses but is stuck forever in time, endlessly repeated by people from all over the world.